Statistics is the backbone of criminology and criminal justice.
Statistics is everywhere!!!
Statistics is everywhere!!!
One of the most common statistics used in criminology and criminal justice.
It signifies the number of people arrested within a population during a certain time frame - usually in a given year.
\[Arrest Rate = (Number of Arrest/Total Population) x Multiplier\]
is the process of gathering and analyzing data in a systematic way using procedures (i.e., methods) that are accepted across a discipline.
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Which of the following is a sample?
a.) The number of women in the University
b.) The number of prisoners within a prison
c.) All of the people in the state of Michigan.
d.) A group of 100 police officers pull from a department
Thoughts?
Why would a statistics book emphasize replication?
Theory is a set of proposed and testable explanations about reality that are bound together by evidence.
Hypothesis a single proposition deduced from a theory, that must hold true in order for the theory itself to be considered valid.
Evaluation Research
Exploratory Research
Descriptive Research
Probability Sampling is a sampling technique in which all people, objects, or areas in a population have a known chance of being selected into a sample.
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We will touch lightly on software in this class.
Specifically, we will be using R through Posit Cloud.
But we won’t dive into that until later in the semester.
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